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A classic study of early Christian monasticsm. Combines detailed scholarship with vivid writing in its description of the golden age of Egyptian monasticism and its founders. It follows the development of monastic life to the end of the fourth century. Includes an account of the monastic history of Mount Sinai.
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Michele Sanchez
reviewed The Desert a City: An Introduction to the Study of Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism under the Christian Empire on March 11, 2009
The Desert a City: An Introduction to the Study of Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism under the Christian Empire
Brings the odd figures of early Christian monasticism to life: Pachomius, Antony, etc., and sets them in historical and geographic relation to each other. They were indeed real people rather than the mythic figures they seem to be when you read about them in the various Desert Fathers collections. This is based on Chitty's lectures, which gives it a readable, conversational tone you don't often get in books on this subject. My copy's falling apart and held together with rubber bands...
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